Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file

[Radon Rosborough]

> When I mentioned 'package-initialize', I meant that users of
> packages who would call that in their init files should not need to
> have a second init file just to use packages and have them load
> properly.

Indeed, you need only have a second init file if you would like to
customize `package-load-list', `package-enable-at-startup',
`package-user-dir', or other such low-level variables. (In particular,
`package-archives' can be set in the regular init file.)

In fact, with this patch, you don't even need to have any
package-related code at all in your init-file: not even
`package-initialize'. Packages can be installed, and they will "just
work", including if customizations are them are blindly pasted into
the regular init file.